The Collective Unconscious in Art

A couple years ago my family and I went to Savannah, GA to visit family and attend my uncle's wedding. For anyone who hasn't been to Savannah, I highly encourage you to. Its a beautiful city filled with great bars, friendly people, and fantastic art (work from Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD, is everywhere along with experienced artists work).

While we were there exploring the city there was a music video being filmed for an up and coming country singer in the middle of a park. We also met a group of students from SCAD who were hired to sing and dance on a cruise ship after the graduate. While window shopping we went into a shop that had showcases of different, vibrantly colored, butterflies. After talking to the store owner we found out the different species of butterflies he had and ended up buying one of the smaller showcases.

One of my favorite galleries we went to was Brian MacGregor's. His paintings were very intriguing and, when taking a closer look at them, we saw that they were painted on people's written down dreams. On his website he explains the concept behind his art as having a focus on a visual metaphor of the collective unconscious, in other words: dreams. Over the years he collected hundreds of written dreams from all ages and multiple languages. He glues down the dreams then paints over them. He does this in his works ranging from lanscapes, abstract, to figurative.

I am unable to upload his paintings onto my blog, so check out his website to see the great work.